Taðýric Abugida

Taðýric finally has its own writing system. It took me a few tries to find something I liked, but finally I realized I need some sort of aesthetic commonalities between all these glyphs. The commonality I went with is a little radical, but none of the strokes are allowed to curve upwards. The result is something that looks to me like a lawn of twisted grass, or to others like rows of dancing ghosts.

The abugida is something of a cross between an abugida and a syllabary, as the glyphs for syllables with /e/ and /i/ as their nuclei are slightly irregular: Rather than consistent diacritics, certain strokes in the base glyph are doubled. I therefore needed to create both a font and a keyboard layout.

Here is the result!

This is my translation of Hávamál 93-95. I think it was worth the hours of effort.